[Tony Radford]

Thanks guys. When I neared the end of my long ride home on Friday afternoon - and after half an hour of heavy stop and go traffic, it started to get much worse than it ever has in the past. But after traffic thins out and I can do a litle sustained driving, the problem goes away. If the cause is temporary fuel starvation, or even saturated plugs, would the hesitation be compete among all cylinders? It acts like I'm turning the key off, like a complete power outage, lurch and immediate return to excellent performance. And it will idle all day. It accellerates through first gear (even if I wind it up) and then stumbles typically one good time after the RPMs bottom out inbetween first and second. I have seen on occasion that it will die WHILE accellerating, which is what led me to think it was vapor lock. The lurch Friday night did throw me a curve as I was ready to blame it all on thermals. Hopefully whatever it is will completely crap out as I'm coasting into my driveway (yea right). My plastic clear fuel filter does touch the timing cover, so I think I'll replace it and adjust the hard line so that it's suspended in open air. At least that's cheap and non intrusive. After that, I'm stumped.